Episode 6214

Extended Summary

The morning of her surgery, Leah is watching on fondly as VJ and Zac scoff down a big meal while she is fasting. In private, Leah reminds Zac of his promise to turn off the life support if it comes to that. When they get to the hospital, Dr Gleeson and Nate run VJ, Zac and Leah through what’s going to happen. Just after at the nurses station, Hannah walks in and Dr Gleeson tells her she needs to be in surgery to help him. Hannah initially protests that she has too much to do, but eventually relents to his charm.

Phoebe delivers the news to Andy that Brax is missing, presumed dead. Josh and Evelyn enter, so Phoebe leaves Andy to tell them the bad news. Josh is devastated when he finds out, especially since Brax was the one who took him in when no one else would. In anger Andy punches the wall, injuring his knuckles. He storms off leaving Josh and Evelyn by themselves. Following Andy’s departure Josh is nonresponsive to Evelyn’s attempts at distraction. Josh decides to leave, unwilling to talk about his feelings with Evelyn.

At the Surf Club, Phoebe is telling John, Jett and Maddy the news when Matt walks in, clocking the tension he asks who’s died? Andy walks in at this point, heading straight to the gym. John helps move some stuff out of his way and seeing the injury on Andy’s hand, follows Andy into the gym to clean it. John tries to get Andy to open up but to no avail. Once John leaves, Andy smashes away at a punching bag. Evelyn then turns up to yell at Andy to stop the tough guy act. Andy says it’s not his style, but Evelyn says it doesn’t matter. Josh needs you, so suck it up and go talk to him. Andy finds Josh at the beach looking out at the ocean. Josh tells Andy he can’t believe he won’t ever see Brax again out there on the waves. Andy apologises for bailing earlier. Josh gets it, but Andy insists Brax always put family first, and he was on to something. Andy promises Josh he’ll be there for him.

Following Leah’s surgery, Nate comments how good a theatre nurse Hannah is and Dr Gleeson agrees. Hannah goes to check on Leah but she’s unresponsive, so she grabs Nate who gets her to page Dr Gleeson. As Hannah exits the room Zac, VJ, Irene and Alf arrive. Zac asks Hannah what’s going on – Leah’s blood pressure is dropping, but they are working on stabilising it. When she re-enters Leah’s room she discovers Leah is bleeding from the arterial access site. Nate calls a code blue and pages met team. The alarm goes off and Dr Gleeson runs in demanding blood, plasma and adrenaline.

In the waiting room VJ blames himself. Dr Gleeson comes in and explains the blood thinning medication they use to prevent clotting caused bleeding from the artery incision they use for surgery. They’re going to have to keep an eye on her for a while. Later on VJ, Zac, Irene and Alf go in to see Leah. Meanwhile Dr Gleeson tells Hannah he’s relieved that Leah didn’t die, he should have known something was wrong. Hannah thinks he still has a god complex and he can’t be everywhere at once. Back in Leah’s room Irene and Alf are heading out as Nate checks on Leah. Suddenly, Leah flat lines, Nate calls a code red and begins CPR. Will Leah survive this?